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Roth v. Norfalco LLC

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a tort action arising from severe burns suffered by plaintiff during an explosion while plaintiff was unloading a railway tank car filled with...

Diaz v. Carcamo

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a tort action alleging both respondeat superior and negligent entrustment, judgment of the appeals court is reversed because a plaintiff cannot...

Probert v. Family Centered Services of Alaska

Civil Procedure, Elder Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute involving application of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. section 203(r)(2)(A), judgment of the district court finding that...

CSX Transp., Inc. v. McBride

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute concerning the appropriate causation instruction to give the jury in a claim under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), judgment...

NLRB v. St.George Wharehouse, Inc.

Administrative Law, Evidence, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal of an order awarding backpay to two former employees of the respondent who were terminated for unlawful, discriminatory reasons, the...

Cyr v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an en banc hearing involving an ERISA dispute over who may be properly sued under 29 U.S.C. section 1132(a)(1)(B), prior decisions of the court are...

NLRB v. Northeastern Land Services

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute involving the scope of Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. section 158(a)(1), judgment of the plaintiff is affirmed...

WalMart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by current or former employees of petitioner Wal-Mart, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief, punitive damages, and backpay, on...

Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri

Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
A government employer's allegedly retaliatory actions against an employee do not give rise to liability under the Petition Clause unless the...

In Re: Marcal Paper Mills, Inc

Administrative Law, Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, ERISA
In a dispute involving whether under the ERISA, as amended by the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act, the portion of withdrawal liability that...